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13.5m Afghans suffering from severe food insecurity, says UN

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No fewer than 13.5 million Afghans across the war-torn and poverty-stricken country are suffering from severe food insecurity, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.

Toby Lanzer
Toby Lanzer

According to UNAMA deputy chief Toby Lanzer, many of those people have to survive on less than one meal a day.

He added that he could not underline the scope of the emergency enough.

The UN classifies just under 10 million Afghans as living under category 3 of food insecurity and 3.6 million as category 4, just one step away from famine, he explained.

An estimated 34 million people live in Afghanistan.

The UN has five categories of food insecurity, with category 5 being famine.

In 2018 the World Food Programme helped some 5.5 million people. This year they plan to assist 4.5 million people.

To get to that goal, the UN has asked for $612 million in aid. Lanzer appealed to donors to donate early.

A long wait for funds, he said, would make it harder to fix the problem, which in the in worse-case scenario meant “people die.’’

The UNAMA deputy head warned that even if the conflict came to an end this year, the challenges the country faced would not immediately end.

“Once you have peace, the real war begins,’’ Lanzer said pointing to the war on poverty.

According to Lanzer, some 54 per cent of the country’s population lives below the poverty line. “The people here do not live, they survive,’’ Lanzer said.

People in Afghanistan suffer from years of continuous war, drought, weak economy and high rates of unemployment. U.S. representatives have been meeting representatives Taliban militants since July in an attempt to bring the conflict to an end.

Government seeks blueprint on effective utilisation of underwater valuables

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The Federal Ministry of Information and Culture on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 called for a workable National Action Plan to maximise and effectively use underwater valuables for sustainable development.

Underwater valuables
The convention seeks to protect all traces of human existence having cultural, historical and archaeological characters that cover the oceans floors

Ms Grace Isu Gekpe, Permanent Secretary of the ministry, made the call at the National Sensitisation Workshop on the 2001 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, which held at the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja.

She explained that the convention seeks to protect all traces of human existence having cultural, historical and archaeological characters like shipwrecks, prehistoric arts works, treasures, sacrificial sites and old ports that cover the oceans floors.

Gekpe added that as a country party to the convention, Nigeria had the mandate to stop the illegal looting and pirating on its water.

“The Sustainable Development Goals 14, deals with sustainable use of water resources and we are obligated to do this as a nation by charting today, the best practices that will keep it in effective use for the future.”

She said there was an urgent need for all stakeholders to build up inventory and preserve the nation’s underwater cultural heritage as well as resuscitate numerous historical events and project the sites for tourism purpose.

She stressed the need for the National Assembly to harmonise the relevant articles of the convention into national cultural legislation, to serve as the framework for effective implementation of the convention.

Gekpe also enjoined the Nigerian Navy to be on the lookout for pirates and commercial salvagers destroying historical and archaeological evidences of cultural patrimony.

In the same vein, Prof. Abdulahi Maga, the Director, Education, Science and Culture, ECOWAS, while commending the Federal Government for ratifying the convention, assured that ECOWAS would assist to ensure that her underwater heritage is secure.

Maga said that it was time for the African continent and other cultural institutions to harness the potential in the underwater heritage and protect it from pirates as well as other commercial enterprises.

The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage was aimed at achieving heritage protection in respect of high ethical and scientific standard as well as effective State Cooperation.

The convention brings protection to the same level as the protection of land based sites and enables states’ parties to adopt a common approach to preservation and ethical scientific management.

By Salisu Sani-Idris

Hong Kong proposes to ban E-cigarettes

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The Hong Kong Government has proposed to ban E-cigarettes and may impose a maximum penalty of a fine of $6,370 and six months’ imprisonment on anyone who sells or promotes E-cigarettes.

Tobacco Harm Reduction
E-cigarette: An alternative to cigarette smoking

The government has prohibited bringing in, making, selling, distributing, or promoting alternative smoking products including E-cigarettes in China’s Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

A bill to amend the Smoking Ordinance targeting alternative cigarettes was submitted to the Legislative Council of HKSAR on Wednesday, February 13, 2019.

The bill is proposed by the Food and Health Bureau of the HKSAR government and will have its first reading on Feb. 20.

Safeguarding the health of the public is the primary concern of the government although the bill may raise different opinions under expected paramount discussion, said Sophia Chan, secretary for the Food and Health Bureau, on her official blog.

The government hopes to nip the problem in the bud, Amy Yuen, deputy secretary for the Food and Health Bureau, told reporters.

As these products are still relatively new in Hong Kong, they’re not as entrenched as conventional smoking products. It is the responsibility of the government to prevent these products from taking root in Hong Kong, said Yuen.

Green Bond funds N146m Sokoto grid-connected solar plant

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The Federal Government on Monday, February 11, 2019 commissioned a N146 million national grid connected 60 KiloWatt (KW) solar mini-grid electricity plant to supply power to 350 households in Torankawa community in Sokoto State.

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An impression of a mini-grid solar system

The project was initiated by the Department of Renewable and Rural Access (RRD), Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, under the Renewable Energy Micro Utility Programme.

The project, commissioned by the Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajia Aisha Abubakar, was funded with proceeds from the Nigerian Sovereign Green Bond (SGB) issued by the Federal Government in 2017.

The project, which is Public Private Partnership (PPP) driven, was developed by Messers News Engineering Nigeria Ltd and Protogy Global Services Ltd, indigenous companies operating in the country.

The acting Director, RRD in the ministry, Alhaji Faruk Yusuf said the project would provide electricity to 350 households and 20 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

According to him, the plant will supply power to ultimately 1,750 people in the community.

Yusuf said the project would also power 50 100watt LED street lights, Mosques, and the community’s irrigation farm among others.

He said the project could operate both in grid connected model or non-grid connected environment like an island.

The acting director said the grid connected hybrid solar voltaic mini grid, completed within three months had 99 per cent assurances of supplying 24 hours, seven days high voltage electricity to the community all year round.

According to him, the plant comprises 125KVADC/ AC Inverter, 60KW Solar Photophotics (PV) Modules, 216 kilowatt hours (kWh) battery bank , and 100KVA diesel generator as redundant back up.

Yusuf said the project also included rehabilitation of four kilometers Town Distribution Network (TDN) and installation of 100 smart meters and local electronic vending system.

The minister in her remarks said the project was unique as it was the first grid connected solar mini project implemented in Nigeria by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing.

She said the project was a demonstration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s commitment to providing Nigerians with incremental stable and reliable power supply.

Abubakar said implementation of the project was also part of Nigeria’s contribution toward promoting and archiving sustainable energy for all.

“This project is a demonstration of the viability of deploying alternative energy in technology to provide   rural communities 24/7 reliable power supply.

“The electricity will improve the life of rural dwellers through improved health care, education and agricultural production.’’

She said Buhari in his efforts to rapidly provide access to electricity had developed policies and regulations to attract private sector participation in the power industry.

She said the polices were in financing, developing, operation and maintenance of rural electrification projects using renewable sources.

“The mini-grid approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), provides opportunity for private investors and has started yielding results, as 20 mini-grid projects have been commissioned across the country in 2017 and 2018.

Abubakar said the commissioned mini-grids power projects was providing reliable power supply to more than 20,000 people in off-grid project areas of the country.

“This project in Torankawa has been developed to demonstrate economic viability and sustainability and will be concessioned to a private operator that will be responsible for operation and maintenance.

“It is necessary therefore, that the electricity users pay for the use of the electricity to ensure that the project keeps delivering power over its life span.’’

The minister commended Torankawa people for their cooperation, not only in providing the land for the project but for also committing to purchasing the electricity generated from the project.

She called on other communities to emulate the peaceful and dynamic attitude of the Torankawa community.

Abubakar also called on states, local governments and the private sector to take advantage of Federal Government’s policies on electricity and initiate Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to provide electricity to rural communities across the country.By Kingsley Okoye

Bill Gates calls for innovation in reducing emissions

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Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has called for strengthened investment in innovation in key areas so that related industries can continue to develop without worsening climate change.

Bill Gates
Bill Gates of the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Gates said this on New York in the Bill and Melinda Gates 2019 annual letter released on Tuesday, February 12, 2019.

To solve climate change, people need to get to near-zero emissions on all the things that drive it — agriculture, electricity, manufacturing, transportation and buildings.

“We need breakthrough inventions in each of the grand challenges,” he said.

As renewable gets cheaper, some progress has been made on electricity. But electricity accounts for only a quarter of all the greenhouse gases emitted around the world.

Manufacturing is not far behind, at 21 per cent, according to the letter.
When most people think of manufacturing, they picture widgets on assembly lines, but it also includes the materials used in buildings.

Making cement and steel requires lots of energy from fossil fuels, and the processes involved release of carbon as a byproduct.

As the urban population continues to grow in the coming decades, the world’s building stock is expected to double by 2060 — the equivalent of adding another New York City monthly between now and then.
That’s a lot of cement and steel.

“We need to find a way to make it all without worsening climate change,” he said.

Manufacturing is not the only big emitter. Agriculture accounts for 24 per cent of greenhouse gases. That includes cattle, which give off methane when they belch and pass gas.

He said it’s not realistic to think that people will simply stop using fertiliser, running cargo ships, building offices, or flying airplanes.

Nor is it fair to ask developing countries to curtail their growth for the sake of everyone else. For example, for many people in low- and middle-income countries, cattle are an essential source of income and nutrients.

“Part of the solution is to invest in innovation in all five sectors so we can do these things without destroying the climate,” he said.

He said some progress has been made in this respect, but “we need to do a much better job of informing people about the challenges.”

“It would help if media coverage matched the breadth of the problem. Solar panels are great, but we should be hearing about trucks, cement and cow farts too,” he added.

Similarly, Gates said that toilets of the future might not be the “sexiest” innovations in the world, but they will save millions of lives.

Gates said that more than two billion people around the world lack access to a decent toilet.

Their waste often ends up in the environment, untreated, killing nearly 800 children every day.

And exporting rich world sanitation solutions isn’t an option, because they require sewer systems that are too expensive to build and need a lot of water.

“Nearly eight years ago, Melinda and I challenged engineers and scientists around the world to reinvent the toilet,” Gates said in the letter.

“In 2018, we organised a toilet fair in Beijing, where I got to check out a number of next-gen toilets in person and even shared the stage with a beaker of human feces.”

He said several companies are business-ready.

Their inventions check almost all the boxes: They kill pathogens, can keep pace with the needs of fast-growing urban areas, and don’t require sewer infrastructure, external water sources, or continuous electricity to operate.

“The only area where they currently fall short is cost – which is why our foundation is investing in more R&D to help make them affordable for the poor,” he said.

He said at first glance the next generation of toilets are not that different from traditional ones, they don’t exactly look like something out of a sci-fi novel.

The real magic happens out of sight. Unlike today’s commodes, the toilets of the future are self-contained. They’re essentially tiny treatment plants capable of killing pathogens and rendering waste safe on their own.

Many of them even turn human feces and urine into useful byproducts, like fertiliser for crops and water for handwashing.

Melinda Gates said that they also improve lives – especially for women and girls.

Life without a toilet is hard for anyone, but it tends to be women and girls, who suffer most.

“Bill and I have both met women, who have suffered kidney damage from holding in urine all night to avoid a risky trip to dangerous public facilities.

“We’ve met others whose only place to defecate is in an open field, so they restrict their food intake all day and wait for cover of darkness to relieve themselves in relative privacy,” she said.

She said that one in 10 girls in sub-Saharan Africa and one in four girls in India miss school during their periods, most often because their schools don’t have anywhere, they can go to change or dispose of menstrual hygiene products.

“If you’re anything like me, I’m guessing toilets aren’t your favorite topic of conversation.

But if you care about keeping girls in school, expanding women’s economic participation, and protecting them against violence, then we have to be willing to talk about toilets,” she said.

Nigeria’s wildlife trade and threats to conservation

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“I am a hunter, I supply fresh wild animals like pangolins, big snakes, antelopes, wild cats, etc.”

This tweet on January 15, 2019, by Onayemi Temitope (@trotsky27), generated a massive online buzz, especially on Twitter where it had over 5,000 engagements. Many called out this young man and labelled his action “wicked” and “punishable”, while others praised him highly for his courage and bravery.

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The Pangolin

No doubt, wildlife trade remains a very controversial subject on the African continent, perhaps across the world. World Economic Forum asserts that with an annual upper income of $23 billion, wildlife trade is the fourth most lucrative global crime after drugs, humans and arms. While the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is clear about international trade, with emphasis on sustainability, we must further accept that poaching of wildlife resources in Nigeria is largely unchecked, contributing to Nigeria’s rapid biodiversity loss.

While some very wealthy folks and greedy businessmen are keen on exploiting these resources at the expense of sustainability, the hunters – mostly stack illiterate in local communities – are paid only 3% of the total income, just enough to keep them poor and fuel their thirst to hunt more fauna.

Having carried out numerous wildlife field studies, first-hand interviews with hunters and with a few publications about wildlife – education, trade and conservation in Nigeria, I found Mr. Onayemi Temitope’s case completely different. Onayemi Temitope Timothy is a graduate of Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Benin, with a second degree (Masters) in Sociology (Major – Criminology) from the University of Ibadan. Four years after his graduation, having remained unemployed, Temitope took to wildlife hunting and trading, first as a recreative activity, then as a source of financial stability.

I asked Temitope how often he hunts and what his average kill rate is. “Presently, I don’t really live in Sagamu (the hunting location) but any time I am around, I’ll go hunting with other people. I can’t put a figure to an average kill rate, especially because I don’t hunt every day. The truth is that the recent kill rate has greatly declined and is now typically very low. Sometimes we can get just one snake, sometimes, one Pangolin or just one grass cutter. There are times we don’t even come across any at all,” he replied.

Education is the bedrock of human actions and it snowballs into our actions and inactions. At Wildlife of Africa Conservation Initiative, my team and I have always laid emphasis on Wildlife Education and Conservation using various platforms, formal (schools and universities), informal (communities, social and religious groups) and online advocacy.

My chat with Temitope was very insightful, I was least surprised when Mr. Temitope truthfully confided that, before now, it never felt awkward hunting wild animals – endangered species inclusive.

“Till recently, I never knew most of those animals are endangered, threatened or vulnerable. I used to believe that if humans don’t kill them, higher mammals will or they will just die a natural death and since they procreate more than humans, we cannot exhaust them. It was the Twitter response after my tweet that made me know Pangolins are endangered species. I also got to know some wild animals were of concern to the Federal Ministry of Environment, the Nigerian National Park and State Governments,” he said.

Mr. Felix Abayomi of Wildlife of Africa Conservation Initiative also explained the roles of CITES and IUCN list. His words: “Now, I see things in a different light. Ever since, I have tried to protect Pangolins, as well as other wildlife species. Today, I can tell the difference between conserving and hunting and I am able to create a balance and educate others too.”

In Nigeria, as with other developing countries, the present needs of the people come first and “availability is affordability”. Hence, prioritising the conservation of Nigeria’s wildlife resource would mean a series of inputs.

As a member state, Nigeria would have to revisit and adopt Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) guidelines; interest stakeholders, development partners and private sectors will consistently have to lobby and influence the government’s political will at all levels; most importantly, there is a striking need to provide lots of other environmental-friendly economic options/job opportunities that could convert poachers and hunters to conservationists and researchers.

By ‘Seyifunmi Adebote

Biosafety agency reaffirms commitment to safety in regulating GMOs

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The Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has reiterated the agency’s commitment to put safety first in the regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Nigeria.

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Staff of the National Biosafety Management Agency at the workshop

He stated this while declaring open a one-day training workshop organised for the staff of the NBMA. 

Dr. Ebegba stressed that government deemed it fit to establish NBMA to save Nigeria from becoming a dumping ground for unregulated GMOs and their by-products with the state-of-the-art GMO Detection and Analysis Laboratory of the NBMA ensuring that proper safety analysis is carried on GMOs.

He described the Nigerian biosafety system as the best in Africa as, according to him, government has resolved to exploit the potentials of modern technology with a proper regulatory mechanism in place to safeguard human health, environment and biodiversity from potential adverse impact.

Director, Environmental Biosafety and General Release of the Agency, Ms. Nzeduru Chinyere, in her presentation titled “Biosafety and Biotechnology in Nigeria”, noted that biotechnology is as old as man. She states that, prior to modern biotechnology, humans modified plants traditionally.

“Modern biotechnology is an improvement on the traditional modification of organisms and there is need to regulate this practice,” she stressed, noting that no commercial release can be done without proper risk assessment of the genetically modified product to guarantee its safety.

Head of Planning Research and Statistics, NBMA, Mrs. Bello Scholastica, reaffirmed that Nigeria is ranked high in GM regulation in Africa. She noted that government has put in place the necessary legal framework to regulate modern biotechnology and that, with this, the agency will not condone breach of law by individuals or organisations to trade in GMOs without a Biosafety Permit from NBMA.

Head of the Legal Unit of the agency, Mrs. Onyilofor-Aja Nkiruka, in a paper presentation titled “The Cartagena Protocol and the NBMA Act 2015”, stated that the Cartagena Protocol signed by Nigeria, as well as 194 other countries, aims to safeguard human health and environment from any unintended risks that could result from the practice of modern biotechnology. She also added that Nigeria has made great strides in the domestication of the protocol.

The daylong forum, it was gathered, was organised as part of government’s efforts to strengthen the Nigerian biosafety system to ensure proper regulation in the field of safe transfer, handling and use of GMOs.

AU, AfDB launch scorecard to track nutrition progress

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The African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and global partners on Monday, February 11, 2019 launched the Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard to raise awareness and reinforce commitments by African governments to help end malnutrition.

King Letsie III
King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho

King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho and African Union Champion for Nutrition, and Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) co-hosted the scorecard launch on the sidelines of the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

“The nutrition accountability scorecard offers an opportunity to lay a solid foundation to aid African leaders to act strategically and deliberately in implementing policies and investing in nutrition programmes that tackle malnutrition in our respective countries,” King Letsie III told attendees.

“As responsible leaders, the onus is on us to take action for the wellbeing of the African people. We need to take appropriate and decisive actions now rather than later,” he added.

In attendance were Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi, President of the Republic of Botswana, members of the diplomatic corps, health ministers from Malawi, Botswana, Kenya, Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, and development partners including FAO, WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF.

In his remarks, President Masisi commended the bank for the initiative. “I am so proud about the African Development Bank’s involvement… the scorecard is an extremely useful tool. It is important to get a continental picture of the state of our nutrition so that we ask ourselves the right questions to make sure we get our priorities right and fix them,” he noted.

The Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard is produced by the African Leaders for Nutrition Initiative (ALN), headquartered at the African Development Bank, in collaboration with ALN’s partners including the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“We must change how we look at the problem of malnutrition. The greatest contributor to economic growth is not physical infrastructure but brainpower, what I refer to as “grey matter infrastructure”. While it is obvious that a road and a port can add to improved trade and economic growth, it is often not recognized that stunting shrinks the size of the brain and therefore compromises the current and future economic growth of nations,” said Adesina.

Africa remains the only continent with high levels of malnutrition and suffers slow progress to reverse the situation in comparison to the rest of the world. United Nations data indicate the number of stunted children in Africa increased sharply from 50.6 million in the year 2000 to 58.7 million in 2017. A growing body of evidence recognizes that malnutrition and economic development are closely interlinked.

Poor nutrition is responsible for stunting children’s growth, harming children’s educational development and future economic prospects.

The scorecard launch presented key findings and recommendations, including calls for governments to increase budgetary allocations for multi-sectoral nutrition plans. The scorecard also calls for the enhanced empowerment of women and adolescent girls and the provision of nutritional support at the most critical time of a child’s life – during pregnancy and early childhood.

The nutrition assessment tool provides a snapshot of the status of key nutrition indicators, including internationally agreed nutrition targets, specific interventions, sensitive interventions, policy and legal provisions, nutrition financing, and socio-economic impacts.

“Over time, the Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard will expand in depth, data and usefulness, and will help to identify solutions to mitigate the burden of malnutrition that has impeded the continent for the past few decades,” said Jennifer Blanke, Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank.

ALN targets the highest levels of African governments to build advocacy for improving nutrition across the continent. “Let us rise and do the right thing for Africa’s children: secure their future with better nutrition. Let us turn the red colours on these scorecards to green. Let us score goals for nutrition in Africa,” Adesina concluded.

Study says Americans are increasingly ‘alarmed’ about global warming

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Six in 10 Americans are now either “alarmed” or “concerned” about global warming, a study conducted by the Yale Programme on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Centre for Climate Change Communication has found. According to the nationally-representative survey of public opinion conducted from December 2013 to December 2018, the proportion of “alarmed” more than doubled.

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The proportion of “alarmed” has more than doubled

A prior research had categorised Americans into six groups – Global Warming’s Six Americas – based on their climate change beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. The “alarmed” are the most worried about global warming and most supportive of aggressive action to reduce carbon pollution. In contrast, the “dismissive” do not believe global warming is happening or human-caused and strongly oppose climate action.

A survey conducted in December 2018 finds that the Alarmed segment is at an all-time high (29%) – which is double that segment’s size in 2013 and an 8-point increase since March 2018. Conversely, the Dismissive (9%) and Doubtful (9%) segments have both decreased over the last five years. The percentage of Americans in these two segments has declined by 12 points since 2013.

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Global warming’s six Americas

Although the size of the Concerned segment has remained relatively consistent since 2013, this doesn’t mean that those who were previously Concerned did not change their minds. Rather, it is likely that many who were previously Concerned became Alarmed, and many who were previously Cautious or Disengaged became Concerned. Over the past five years, the U.S. population as a whole has moved away from the Doubtful and Dismissive segments and toward the Alarmed and Concerned segments.

In 2013, the Alarmed and Dismissive were an equal size at 14% of U.S. adults. As of the end of 2018, however, the Alarmed now outnumber the Dismissive more than 3 to 1 (29% vs. 9%), representing a major shift in these two “issue publics” most engaged in the issue of climate change.

These trends indicate that the political climate of climate change is shifting toward action.

New app supports cookery in climate protection

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The Government of Germany has endorsed “KlimaTeller”, a new app that enables restaurateurs to estimate the CO2 emissions of their food as well as put together and label climate-friendly menus on this basis.

Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter
Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

The starting signal for the app is given on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 by the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter.

The KlimaTeller project, in which the app was developed, is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment via the National Climate Initiative (NKI) with around €160,000.

Schwarzelühr-Sutter said: “The KlimaTeller app helps restaurateurs to cook sustainable menus and make this visible to their guests. If you like, you can also cook climate consciously at home. About 15 to 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions in Germany can be attributed to our diet. The use of regional and seasonal products is therefore an important building block for climate protection.”

Using the KlimaTeller app, restaurateurs can label their food as a KlimaTeller if the ingredients of a dish in total cause less than 50 percent of the emissions of an average dish. An average dish causes around 1,600 g of CO2 emissions.

With the “KlimaTeller”, every guest knows that with his choice of food, he saves at least 800g CO2 emissions, which is about a five-kilometre drive.

“The KlimaTeller plate helps guests who value seasonal, regional and predominantly vegetarian food to find their way around. This will contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” a source said, adding:

“Around one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by nutrition. These include, above all, agriculture, processing, trade (including transport) and consumption. With the KlimaTeller we can significantly reduce these emissions and do something actively for climate protection.”